The tiny allotment, consisting of several parcels north of McAllister, MT, offers 137 active AUMs on 1.012 public acres according to the allotment master report.
It’s in the Custodial category, condition unknown.
The management plan assigns zero AUMs to wild horses.
How many could live there?
The forage assigned to livestock is equivalent to 11 wild horses, or 10.9 per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
Your faithful public servants claim that rangelands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (25,500 animals on 25.6 million acres).
The advocates bolster the narrative with their darting programs.
The allotment is too small and too fragmented to be an HMA (or refuge), but if it was, the AML would be 1 and 10 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Montana support livestock equivalent to 112,120 wild horses on 7,991,479 public acres, or 14.0 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
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